CVE-2004-0974 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the netatalk package, affecting Trustix Secure Linux 1.5 through 2.1, and potentially other operating systems including Mandrakesoft and Red Hat. This flaw allows a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files through a symlink attack on temporary files. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), indicating local access, low attack complexity, and a partial impact on integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.5_pre6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:open_source_apple_file_share_protocol_suite:1.5_pre6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:open_source_apple_file_share_protocol_suite:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:open_source_apple_file_share_protocol_suite:1.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:mandrakesoft:mandrake_linux:9.2:*:amd64:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.